Dr. Steven Radelet is a world-renowned economist and global
human development expert. He played a central role in shaping U.S.
policy under the Clinton and Obama administrations, working as the
Chief Economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development
and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He now...

The United States Constitution,
a document written nearly 250 years ago, continues to dictate
politics in 2017. According to the political scientist, author, and
University of Chicago Professor, William Howell — this is a
problem.

In his new book,Relic: How Our Constitution
Undermines Effective Government—and Why...

What’s it like to work in the
White House as a presidential speechwriter — at the age of 24, no
less? That’s what we asked David Litt, who did just that when he
entered the White House in 2011, serving as one of President
Obama’s speechwriters until 2016. Described as the “comic muse for
the president,”...

According to CIA consultant, political scientist, and NYU
Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, that’s just how politics works.
Bueno de Mesquita has built complex political algorithms based on
this principle — developing mathematical analyses that draw
on...

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